Copenhagen’s jazz calendar for Thursday through Sunday, November 5–8, offers a useful route through four very different ideas of a live set. Start with a musician looking back across a long working life, move into a composed band sound shaped around trombone and voice, take in a seated quartet concert, then finish where the evening remains deliberately porous: a Sunday jam. The common thread is scale. Each stop gives the players room, yet the settings shift from Epicurus’s downstairs jazz room to Jazzhus Montmartre, Hotel Cecil and La Fontaine’s compact after-hours stage. Treat this as a four-room guide to how the city holds jazz in 2026: repertory, atmosphere, quartet interplay and collective possibility.[1][2][3][4]

Thursday: Darryl Jones brings the long view to Epicurus

Darryl Jones arrives at Epicurus on Thursday, November 5 at 21:15 with pianist Robert Irving III and drummer Toby Williams. The venue frames the programme as a journey from Jones’s work around Miles Davis to his decades with The Rolling Stones, with music connected to Davis, Sting, Madonna and Jones’s own catalogue alongside personal stories. That premise gives the evening a particular shape: a bassist whose career has moved through electric jazz, pop and stadium rock returning to a small room with two players. Robert Irving III’s role as a longtime Miles Davis musical director makes the Davis connection especially concrete. Epicurus places its live music downstairs in its Jazz Room, a setting built for a late, focused listen.[1]

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Friday: Lis Wessberg and Veronika Rud at Jazzhus Montmartre

On Friday, November 6 at 20:00, Jazzhus Montmartre hosts trombonist Lis Wessberg with vocalist Veronika Rud. Wessberg’s writing is presented by the venue as cinematic and atmospheric, while Rud’s voice brings a lyrical, close-miked quality to the material. Their five-piece lineup adds Steen Rasmussen on piano, Jesper Thorn on bass and Jeppe Gram on drums, giving the concert a defined internal colour palette shaped by the whole band. Wessberg’s albums Yellow Map and Twain Walking are part of the context supplied by Montmartre, whose programme traces her musical references from Miles Davis toward the textural worlds associated with Radiohead and Talk Talk. It is the weekend’s most carefully drawn chamber-sized proposition.[2]

Sunday at Hotel Cecil: Benjamin Koppel’s quartet

Sunday, November 8 at 20:00 brings the Benjamin Koppel Quartet feat. Magnus Öström to Hotel Cecil. Koppel plays alto saxophone, with Jacob Christoffersen on piano and Öström on drums; the venue lists the bass chair as to be announced. Öström is widely associated with the Swedish trio e.s.t., and Hotel Cecil highlights his atmospheric, energetic approach as a key part of this edition of the quartet. The concert is seated, which suits a set centred on quartet communication and detail. After Friday’s vocal-and-trombone blend, this is a clean change of frame: alto saxophone, piano, bass and drums, with Koppel’s compositional and improvising work at the centre.[3]

Sunday late: La Fontaine leaves the door open

For a second Sunday option, head to La Fontaine at 21:00 for Jamsession – Claus Waidtløw, Rune Fog-Nielsen & Andreas Svendsen. Waidtløw directs the night on saxophone and flute, with Fog-Nielsen on bass and Svendsen on drums. La Fontaine describes its Sunday sessions as gatherings of Copenhagen musicians, so the listed trio supplies the evening’s anchor while the jam format keeps the personnel and direction open. Waidtløw’s place in modern post-bop and big-band settings gives the session a strong local centre of gravity, while Fog-Nielsen’s hard-bop grounding adds another line into the tradition. Entry is free, and the room runs on a first-come, first-served basis. It is an apt final stop after three ticketed concerts: the weekend ends with jazz as a shared working language.[4]

Plan the route

The route begins at Epicurus on Thursday at 21:15, continues at Jazzhus Montmartre on Friday at 20:00, then offers two Sunday finishes: Hotel Cecil at 20:00 or La Fontaine from 21:00 until 01:00. Jazzhus Montmartre currently lists the Friday Lis Wessberg date as sold out, while La Fontaine lists free entry and no table reservations. Check each venue’s official page again before leaving for current ticket availability, door arrangements, timings and lineup updates.[1][2][3][4]

Sources

  1. Darryl Jones – From Miles Davis to The Rolling Stones — Epicurus
  2. Lis Wessberg feat. Veronika Rud — Jazzhus Montmartre
  3. Benjamin Koppel Quartet feat. Magnus Öström — Hotel Cecil
  4. Jamsession – Claus Waidtløw, Rune Fog-Nielsen & Andreas Svendsen — La Fontaine